What to know about fiber optics You may remember that around 2010 there was a point where fiber-optic lights were all the rage — they were bundles of translucent plastic strands that sent ...

That equipment is too expensive for the consumer market today, but when it becomes cheap enough, consumers will be able to deploy them on any fiber optic strands they happen to own.

A Pittsburgh company is developing new tools to help utilities act faster during grid failures, like during April’s severe ...

Fiber-optic fabric makes Daniel Buren’s well-known stripes luminescent. In the late 1960s, strange markings started appearing on walls and gates of Paris, a city in the midst of violent upheaval ...

Fiber optics provides a transmission medium that surpasses coax cable in many ways, especially for long transmission runs. But now with HD-SDI, the need for high-frequency capacity and low loss brings ...

When people think about fiber optic cables, it's usually about how they're used for telecommunications and accessing the internet. But fiber optic cables—strands of glass or plastic that allow for the ...

Police say severed cables that caused internet outage was an act of vandalism; the company that owns the lines says it was ...

One of those improvements, which was officially announced today, involves replacing the silica glass core of fiber optic strands with semiconductive zinc selenide.

To address this unpredictability, Park stitched the fiber optic strands into a nylon casing. The embroidered enclosure acts like a tunnel, gently guiding the movement of the strand as it ...

Subscribers in Southern California of Spectrum’s Internet service experienced outages over the weekend following what company officials said was an attempted theft of copper lines located in Van Nuys, ...

The World Wide Web might sound metaphorical, but it’s actually grounded in a physical web of translucent glass filaments crisscrossing the globe. These fiber-optic cables transmit internet data ...

Note the thin filaments at the center of the cable; these are the fiber optic strands that transmit communications. Donated by Tyco International, Limited, Simplex Technologies, the manufacturer, to ...